Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98567d4772b3d39c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.6 KB Created: 2021-09-22 23:50:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: ad69ece48496e25cf11b130defe4033c SHA-1: 25897920f5740750134d32094a29c85a5b7834b5 SHA-256: 98567d4772b3d39c5cd79fae7995ab6df1c8d95b3f36f523f95b7f7b756bd1a9
216 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF document employs a social engineering lure, instructing the user to install a browser extension or update to view content, which is a common tactic for malware delivery. The presence of multiple links to potentially compromised CMS upload directories and IP address literals further supports a malicious intent. ClamAV detection and ML classification confirm the malicious nature of the file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://akilanews.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/delog.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cb7e6703a3---40708718764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ckmandarin.com/uploads/32157697652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://devcons.org/uploads/userfiles/files/80099999941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://groupunsur3.com/contents/files/52597916934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16146f33c00447---56765041000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musicincw.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/76094899561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vertex-decor.com/userfiles/file/tobodevebugir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brazilairporttransfers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34520740309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c673929534a3b150a9a8461318e195cf/varosunufano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nurdagihaber.com/resimler/files/nosed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaeiengkwpz6p.xn--p1ai/pub/file/10064979657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hkki.org/userfiles/files/vazasojefulalon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osteriailgalloelinnamorata.com/userfiles/files/nifuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://girl0229960192.com/upload/users/files/3715359988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://79.170.40.182/boothtastic.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161469af4246c4---57958026455.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://popa.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a388bf35e2af343ebc4811a69894abd1/89048895211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paeonia.ch/userfiles/files/99442188949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-xian-coat.com/uploads/files/202109041536578285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.c-l-r-p.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46687032345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rcot.org/userfiles/file/rasipevadikal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/smcdlb76ac6immshpv7je87rj6/85602053320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c381221d69---41218639441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leonardscopysystems.com/home/leonards/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11754463274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=watch+max+steelPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d4c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4C4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ecdb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECDB 10176 bytes
SHA-256: ecc931897840d33923255d28899e08bd23573d40590b2e49641c7327a5128d1d
font_02_sfnt_off000103b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103B8 17424 bytes
SHA-256: 68829a493182d7426e69de49ac0c45ef0032fbc435c19b7ddf76a5cb42b66504